Word: adaptions
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What Pivot has done, of course, is adapt that venerable French institution, the literary salon, to television. Each week the program, live and unrehearsed, arranges four or five guests around a low table, with a small studio audience behind them and Pivot at the head. Pivot devises a specific theme for each show (the body and how we conceive it, love in the ancient world), carefully choosing his guests in order to orchestrate a lively discussion. Each is given the works of the others well in advance and is expected to read them thoroughly. Current books are discussed along with...
...Europe, Americans seem to be paying closer attention than usual to such expenses as food, entertainment and gifts, which can often add up to half the total cost of the trip. Says Carolyn Bartkus, 22, a Houston homemaker who was visiting London with her husband last week: "We adapt and eat in pubs, like the British...
...call from Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign propelled the economist into the political arena. As the candidate's director of domestic-policy research, Greenspan showed he could adapt and, when necessary, subordinate his own economic opinions to the realities of politics. He proved, in short, to be a pragmatist...
Biden said that American foreign policy has failed to adapt to changing realities and has instead been characterized by outdated approaches to the Soviet Union and world problems, particularly in Central America and South Africa...
...Microsoft, which has zoomed past Lotus to become the industry's No. 1 company. Microsoft's rise was due in large part to an agreement with IBM to develop software for the manufacturer's personal-computer line. But now Lotus is getting an even more challenging IBM assignment: to adapt the top- selling Lotus 1-2-3 business-ledger software and other programs to much larger computers. Lotus would thus become the first company among its peers to graduate from personal computers to huge mainframes. The deal is just as promising for IBM, which will now have...